Han Sanming
Also Known As: 韩三明
Biography: Han Sanming (Chinese: 韩三明; born 1971) is a Chinese actor and coal miner, known for his roles in films directed by his cousin Jia Zhangke. Initially, he was seen only in small roles or cameos, but was then cast in one of the lead roles, as a coal miner looking for his wife and daughter, in Still Life. The film premiered at the 2006 Venice Film Festival and went on to win a Golden Lion award. Of note, his characters are also named "Han Sanming" in the films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lüliang, Shanxi Province, China
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Birthday: May 20, 1971
Age: 54 years old
Gender: Male
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Still Life
Overview: A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2006-11-16
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The World
Overview: At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the city’s suburbs, a security guard betrays his dancer girlfriend by pursuing another woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2004-09-01
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Tiger in the Zoo
Overview: Chong er and San yuan, who are gangsters, lived in a small city northeast of China. They felt lost and confused about the future. San worked at a factory. He and Chong helped Qi ge, the gang leader, to collect debt. Chong despised his vocation and wanted to become a cross talk actor. Lei fu, an entrepreneur, looked down upon Qi. Qi did nothing considered the scale and influence of Lei's company. Lei's project failed thanks to San. He was furious. The dispute was ended through the mediation of his old friends. San was beaten, and his hatred grew deeper. Chong's life was not as good as expected. The money he saved for learning cross talk was not in use. Qi finally got a chance to defeat Lei. However, there was no real winner in this battle. Lei's company went bankrupt. San kept on living an aimless life, while Chong left the small city and kept on pursuing his cross talk dream.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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A Touch of Sin
Overview: Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-10-04
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爱人之谜
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-11-20
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Wolf
Overview: Poet Wolf (Lang) chose to starve himself to death, in a beautiful flower blossoming Spring. This is a poetic, aesthetic and brutal film that adapted from the true stoy of Poet Wo Fu's suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-12-27
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Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang
Overview: Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators. Jia recalls the inspiration sources for his movies, such as Platform, Still Life and A Touch of Sin. The film is the memory of a filmmaker and of a country in convulsion, China, which reveals itself little by little.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-10-20
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一出婚礼
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-11-18
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Dong
Overview: Jia Zhangke travels with painter Liu Xiaodong from China to Thailand as they as they meet everyday workers in the throes of social turmoil. Liu Xiaodong is well-known for his monumental canvases, particularly those inspired by China's Three Gorges Dam project. Jia Zhangke visits Liu on the banks of Fengjie, a city about to be swallowed up by the Yangtze River. The area is in the process of being "de-constructed" by armies of shirtless male workers who form the subject of Liu's paintings. Liu and Jia next travel to Bangkok, where Liu paints Thai sex workers languishing in brothels. The two sets of paintings are united in their subjects' shared sense of malaise in the face of the dehumanizing labor afforded them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2006-11-18
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Lu Jianjiang
Overview: Lv Jianjiang went to the first day of the ancient village police office in the village, decided to first come to a "micro-visit" to objectively understand the general situation of the ancient village. Because of his excellent work, Lv Jianjiang was transferred to Anjianqiao police station as director.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-11-27
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Platform
Overview: China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2001-08-29
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One Night on the Wharf
Overview: Han Dong adapts his own 1998 novel, about a group of young poets accidentally caught up in an inexplicable dispute with local hoodlums and security guards.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-10-14
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The Lost Land
Overview: At a small town in the west of China in 1935, the county magistrate's funny accent raised a series of misguided affairs, deduced a bizarre and absurd story with one and another climaxes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-05-18
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Rolling Steel Eggs
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-02-17
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Drifting
Overview: Yan is an illegal second child born during the One-Child policy. To avoid government punishment, Yan's parents hid their oldest daughter in the countryside and raised Yan as a girl. Now a young adult, Yan struggles with his gender identity and being treated as an outcast in a conservative society. His sole escape is drifting his father's old taxi through abandoned parking lots.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-09-24
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The Affechonateness in the Canyon
Overview: Chen Na, a young female teacher in the northwest, learned that the children have to cross a "ghostly gorge" on their way to school, which is very dangerous, and some of them have to give up their studies because of this. Through the Internet, she let people outside the mountains know about the children's situation, and with the assistance of people from all walks of life and the government, they built a "bridge of love" for the children.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-09-26
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The Hedonists
Overview: The closure of an unprofitable state-run coal mine in Shanxi, China forces three middle-aged men who worked there to search for employment elsewhere.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-03-23
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The Class of One
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-01-16
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A Whale-Riding Teenager
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-08-16
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The Vessel's Isle
Overview: At an unknown time, people who had never been masked, met in the town of Qinghongli. The boy from the city, looking for something lost, accidentally meets a mysterious girl holding a camera and falls into a short and drowsy dream. The young people in the town have illusions and impulses about love, and wantonly respond to life; the hotel owner occasionally immerses himself in his neon world and is not disturbed; the dumb drunken man has an insight into this field, as if he has a connection with the heaven .The old lady is still sitting on the bench, the old train shuttles through the valley jungle, and the whistle sounds every morning and night, entering the dreams of countless people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-11-03
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朝花夕拾
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-11-25
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冬哥的春天
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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